According to the group, added presenting companies include the American Public University System, for which Clay Wilson, Program Director for Cybersecurity will speak, and Implant Sciences, an explosives trace detection and counter-terrorism technology company.

Michael Balboni, Former New York State Senator and Founder of RedLand Strategies, Inc. will open the conference agenda at 9:00 a.m. following networking and registration. Mr. Balboni was First Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee and as state senator wrote nearly all of the major laws relating to Homeland Security for New York State.

Closing the conference is Mr. Lester Quintana, Senior Vice President for Consulting Services, Cellucci Associates, Inc. Quintana is a business executive with a strategic business and tactical operations background; he has held key positions in the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies. He has been engaged in Russia, States of the Former Soviet Union, Kuwait, Iraq, and other globally sensitive locations.

The conference, set to take place March 11, 2014 at the New York Hilton Midtown in NYC, will include a financial panel, industry panel and company presentations.

According to the Biometrics Research Group, the global biometrics market is set to grow to $15 billion by 2015, from its estimated value of $7 billion in 2012.

Reported previously in BiometricUpdate.com, Investorideas.com also recently announced the addition of Janice Kephart of the Secure Identity and Biometrics Association, and Phil Agcaoili, Chairman of the Ponemon Institute, to the speaker list.